Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dark-red crystalline substance, , made by the action of nitrous acid or nitrogen peroxid on resorcinol. It decomposes when melted. Also called
resazoin .
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- noun organic chemistry A blue
dye that is reduced to the fluorescent derivativeresorufin
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Examples
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(A suitable reagent is one resazurin tablet and one rennet tablet dissolved in 50 ml distilled water.)
Chapter 6 1989
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A change from blue to pink coloration is indicative of resazurin reduction and consequently it correlates with bacterial viability.
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Specifically, the group probed the solution-phase catalytic reduction of resazurin molecules to resorufin by measuring the fluorescent light bursts that mark each catalytic event (
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